Research Catalog

Title

Medical self-regulation : crisis and change / Mark Davies.

Author

Davies, Mark, 1964-

Publication

Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.

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Details

Description

xii, 418 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Mark Davies critically assesses the efficacy of medical self-regulation both in the context of the current regulatory framework and in that of other regulatory models. By evaluating recent events, he argues that the self-regulatory process has failed.

Series Statement

Medical law and ethics

Uniform Title

Medical law and ethics

Subject

• General Medical Council (Great Britain)
• Legislation, Hospital
• Malpractice > legislation & jurisprudence
• Medical laws and legislation > Great Britain
• Physicians > Discipline > Great Britain
• Physicians > Licenses > Great Britain
• Physicians > Malpractice > Great Britain
• Physicians > legislation & jurisprudence
• Professional Autonomy
• United Kingdom

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-410) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The background to medical self-regulation -- The General Medical Council : powers and failings -- Criminal convictions and the general medical council -- Doctors' attitudes to self-regulation -- Trust and the medical profession -- The NHS complaints and disciplinary processes -- The Bristol Royal Infirmary -- Rodney Ledward -- William Kerr and Michael Haslam -- Clifford Ayling -- Richard Neale -- Harold Shipman -- Whistleblowing -- Lay participation in the regulatory process -- Self-regulation in a "no fault" culture -- Crisis and change -- Revalidation - the GMC's big idea -- Conclusions and future directions.

ISBN

9780754644590 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007002933

OCLC

81150207

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library